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Ben Affleck, Matt Damon to team up for biopic about Michael Jordan, Nike

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Gandolfini, HBO reunite

"Sopranos" star James Gandolfini reunites with HBO when he plays the U.S. marketing executive who signed Michael Jordan to the first million-dollar shoe deal.

Sports News // 2 decades ago

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John Paul Vaccaro (born 23 September 1939 in Trafford, Pennsylvania) is an American former sports marketing executive.

Vaccaro is probably best known for his tenure with Nike, Inc., and signed Michael Jordan to his first sneaker deal. Vaccaro left Nike for Adidas, then Reebok. He founded the ABCD All America Camp, an elite showcase of high school basketball standouts, which ran from 1984 to 2007. It featured future stars Kobe Bryant, Sebastian Telfair, and LeBron James. Vaccaro cofounded the first national high school All-Star game, The Dapper Dan Roundball Classic, with concert promoter and boyhood friend Pat DiCesare in Pittsburgh in 1965. The game endured for 43 years and its alumni includes such greats as Calvin Murphy, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Chris Webber, Alonzo Mourning, Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, Patrick Ewing, Rasheed Wallace and Stephon Marbury.

James Gandolfini is slated to play Vaccaro in an upcoming HBO movie ABCD Camp

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